Cat Tricks

silva_unt

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Lets share the tricks our cats have learned!

Neko plays fetch with pony tail holders! She loves loves them! When I need to put my hair up, I have to go searching around the apt because she takes them from me!
Anyway, if i toss it she will fetch it and drop it at my feet. When i reach for it she will nudge my hand with her head or body which is her "thank you, now thow it!" We can do this back and forth for a good 10min or so. If i dont throw it she will meow or bring it up on the couch "Look, remember! Throw it!" Sometimes she will even jump in the air and catch it!!
 

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All of mine will fetch sparkle balls & Jordan will fetch fuzzy mice.
All of mine know how to "Sit" before they get fed.
Isaac almost knows how to "Leave It" when I don't want him bother Levi.
Jordan knows how to jump into my arms from the floor when I say "Uppy"
 

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Ginger is very adept at completly ignoring me when I beg her to please, please stop using the couch as a sratching post!
 

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3 of mine fetch. They all know sit, stay, come and back (back away from the door), also stand for standing on the scales.
 
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Ooooh! I want to teach "uppy" and "back"!!
Tips please, Rang_27 and missymotus.
 

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Sugar knows how to reach into an open canister of treats and get her one, only one at a time. She comes running when she hears it rattle.
She also knows that if she gets on top of the fish tank I will come running.
 

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Originally Posted by silva_unt

Ooooh! I want to teach "uppy" and "back"!!
Tips please, Rang_27 and missymotus.
I have to tell you this was a natural behavior for Jordan. He just loves to jump into my arms. So I started associating a word with it & now he does it when I ask (most of the time, again he still is a cat). The only way I have taught them how to sit is to use food as treats. Maybe you could teach them how to jump up using food.
 

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Mine fetch foil balls (except for Kuura who has his special mouse for this purpose) and they 'give paw' for a treat.
 

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Tomas can sneak into just about anything - is that a trick? (I have no idea how he got in my lap, he's just here)
Actually I have a nylon cube that I can turn and hold up - all the way to chest height. I scratch on it and say "Come on Tomas - in" and he'll jump up and through one of the holes in the side. Of course I have to carry him around in it for a bit after because that's why he does it.


Siri fetches fleece balls. This was not taught to her, she just does it.


The rest of the (adult) cats all know several word commands. I'm not even sure what all ones they know, I just use them and they do responded. Out, back, here, down, up, bedroom.

The bedroom command is for them all to go to the bedroom. Used in times when doors will be open or people (children) are around. I've completely shocked people who have watched the cats obey this.


Just remembered. Tomas knows "stretch". I hold him up (butt on the floor) with my hands under his front legs/armpits and say stretch. He'll give a big stretch when I do this. If I don't say stretch he just sits there. He also knows more words than the other cats.
 
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